Pfizer got published in the Wall Street Journal recently because it had created a web presence that would allow physicians to have a social interaction on the web with other members and with the company itself.
This hit the news mostly because of the concern it creates ethically.
Physicians are now going to be able to get ongoing "support" for prescribing Pfizer drugs and will get to know how they are prescribed by other physicians. Physicians will, presumably, discover other possible uses for Pfizer drugs, some which might not be approved.
Some of my readers will no doubt think this unlikely and sure to be the exception, not the rule. Actually, though, drugs are frequently prescribed for things they are not approved for.
The perfect example is Prozac which gets prescribed more for things it is not approved for than for things it is approved for!
Of course, I am going to draw a very different conclusion and perspective than the Wall Street Journal. I am using this as an opportunity to point out that our relationship to medical doctors is by no means pristine.
I recently spoke to a young man at a health fair who is attending Medical School and intends to go on to Naturopathic School. The conversation turned to the disdain medical doctors often have for herbalists, nutritionists and the like. I commented to him something that I often say which is that the real problem with the division in this country of conventional medicine and natural medicine stems from drug companies controlling what is taught in medical schools.
I actually was thinking about what I am aware of, which is that drug companies staff the school and licensing boards of medical schools and medical doctors. He upped me though when he revealed to me that every textbook was published by a major drug company at his medical school!
That means that 100% of the education of medical doctors is totally controlled and directly specified by the companies that make money off prolonging illness!
Of course medical doctors are carefully trained to have disdain for anyone who opposes them or their position.
It is a heresy (they say) to preach against vaccinations and drugs and surgeries.
It is a heresy (I say) to go to that route first when natural and alternative options have not even been investigated!
I even challenge, as any who are taking my courses would know, that emergency care should automatically go to the medical doctors or hospitals.
Sometimes that radical approach is appropriate but I would much rather take cayenne pepper than go to the E.R. were I to have a heart attack. I would also much rather that my daughter's bones were available for herbal applications than have them in a cast and her on pain medications.
Everything I learn that is an advancement beyond the last thing I learned leads me to the same conclusion, which is that only an extraordinarily low percentage of cases ever need see a hospital or a doctor. The rest can be handled naturally or with a few natural therapies.
I hope that if you have any interest in handling your own health that you will at least purchase my Layman's Natural Healing Courses and get started taking charge of your own health.
Kal Sellers, MH